6/29/2012

This weekend is our moving weekend, finally! The best thing you can do in this crazy heat, ha! So keep your fingers crossed, not everything is finished in our new home, but shortly I will show you more pictures.Tento víkend sa sťahujeme, konečne! Výborne načasované s fajnými horúčavami, tak držte palce! V novom byte ešte nie je všetko úplne dokončené, ale postupne bude a postupne vám ukážem viac fotiek.

1. This one was taken at the F&F showroom, where I fell in love with the F&F Home collection. I never felt the need for anything blue in my space, but I am starting to fall for it, also thanks to these beautiful patterns. The pillow on the right, with the geometric pattern, is moving this weekend with us. Thanks to the girls at the showroom! :-)Táto fotka vznikla v F&F showroome, kde mi padla do oka nová F&F Home kolekcia. Nikdy som modrú v bývaní nepreferovala, ale niečo sa asi mení, aj vďaka týmto krásnym vzorom. A vankúš napravo, s geometrickým vzorom, sa sťahuje s nami - vďaka dievčatám v F&F showroome!

2. What I love about moving is that it forces you to rethink what stuff you really need and want to drag across town (country, continent). We ended up with a lighter closet, bookshelves, heads and hearts. One good way to loose your clothes is the votocvohoz concept. If I had more time on the net, I would probably join. Čo ma na sťahovaní baví, je, že vás prinúti trikrát zvážiť, čo naozaj potrebujete do tej miery, že ste ochotní to prevláčiť na druhú stranu mesta (krajiny, kontinentu). A tak sme skončili s prečisteným šatníkom, knižnicou (au!), hlavami a srdcami. Super spôsob recyklácie oblečenia mi príde koncept votocvohoz. Kebyže mám viac času na nete, som tam.

6/28/2012

Martina in a jacket her mom made and decorated I guess around the end of 70's (note the big orange zipper and hand made peacock on the back!), such a treasure! Which was the reason I couldn't resist seeing it live and meeting the beautiful and stylish Martina. She is also a photographer who takes her camera everywhere she goes, resulting in a photo diary for fun. I wish I could fit into my mum's clothes....

6/24/2012

I've met this young artist at a vernisage (the same as the cute girl a few posts below), love his laid back, yet elegant style and gently boyish charm. And his shoes! (from Italy, if I remember correctly :-). Traveling and living in different countries and cultures does a mind and soul undoubtedly good, on so many levels...

6/22/2012

Honestly, this is one of the most beautiful bikes I have ever seen live! Baby blue (the kind of blue used in the socialist times) with leather and metal details, just pure visual joy. Jozef found it on the internet and bought in in a small village near to Liptovský Mikuláš from the grand daughter of the original owner. It needed a little bit of technical touch-up, new leather handles and a Brooks seat, while still keeping that very vintage spirit. Plus that mustard yellow, jeans shirt and Jojo's sense of style :-) Jojo is the frontman of the band Walter Schnitzelsson, you can catch them live at Grape festival this year, or listen to them here, or like them here.

6/20/2012

Hmmm... Winning a shopping trip worth 4 000 € to New York. Or a 200 € shopping in Slovakia plus your photos taken by me. Yeah, I know, I know, a VERY tough decision, haha! :-) Actually, you could win both prizes, because it takes different things to participate - for all the information, details and inspiration, click here (sorry, only for Slovakia and over 18).
So, if you decide to participate in posting your outfits online, you can win a shopping spree of your choice worth 200 €, after which we will be meeting and taking your pictures that will be published on this blog. Sounds good to me, so I am looking forward meeting one of you! :-) Now go and start here.

6/15/2012

This was so much fun, shooting my very first editorial-like series of pictures for Hanzi šop's summer pieces. Thanks to Nina for the trust and styling, Exit Model Management for Natália P., Natália for her energy, beauty and patience, Silva for letting us shoot at her family's houseboat, Surfmagazin for the surf, and Jakub Gulyás for his helps at the finish line. This truly made me happy, hope you'll like them :-) Click on the pictures to enlarge them.

If there is one thing I pride myself in while taking street style pictures, it is the fact that I remember every face I once photographed. I really do, even when I meet those people on the street again and they don't remember me, because I am just a crazy memory to them. I remember them even when we meet on Facebook again, where they have pictures that don't look like them, ha! :-) And I even remember faces I haven't photographed. (The fact that I don't remember their names or the moments we met and talked, is another story, ehm...)
Anyway, being so proud and all I recently fell in love with the look of this girl I saw at a vernisage. So very "girl meets boys meets French chic". So when I approached her, she told me I have already photographed her once before. What?! No way.... Apparently, it was at Pohoda festival. My memory went blank and the little dwarfs serving the drawers of my memory started panicking and looking into all the drawers labeled Pohoda/glasses/cute blondie/bangs. No. Clue. She said she was wearing a grey dress and a leather bag. Nope. Nada. Didn't ring a bell. The little dwarfs were helplessly shrugging and my self-confidence of a face remembering photographer shrunk to the size of a pea dried up in the sun. Only after giving me some very specific clues and a few minutes of time, I suddenly remembered... Amazing what a haircut, glasses and a hat can do. Would you have guessed?
But actually, my mishap is not the point of this post. No, really :-) The point is that thanks to this city/country/world being so small, I am happy to bump repeatedly into the same stylish people and be a part of their changes. Have a lovely Wednesday!

6/11/2012

It's been almost a year that I have met the lovely Sylvia for the first time, that time in Bratislava. Now she lives in Berlin, so we couldn't miss a chance to catch up on a year of love, life, work and fun. I guess next time we'll meet, again in another part of world :-) Meanwhile you can follow Sylvia's Berlin adventures on her blog.
One observation about Berlin bikes: they are everywhere and anywhere, tons and tons of them, on every corner. But interestingly, we have not seen one stylish bike or a bike that would be pimped in any stylish, nostalgic or personalized way, I guess in the German sense of order, they are regarded rather as useful means of transportation or utility. Makes sense, but I missed all the photogenic bikes I am getting used to see in Bratislava :-)

6/06/2012

I find it always exciting to watch new fashion talent grow and present themselves. A great opportunity is the annual fashion show of The Academy of Fine Arts' graduates. The show is open to the public and proving that this year has some promising talent, I visited the students before the show to give you a sneak peak into their collections. I caught up with 8 of the 11 students and trust me, you are all cordially invited to the show :-)

HELLO

Welcome to my visual diary. I believe that your way of taking the world in translates into what you're putting out - in the way you live, love, dress or walk. Thank you for letting me take notes and pictures.Love, Marika